{"id":20156,"date":"2021-04-02T12:02:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T16:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=20156"},"modified":"2023-02-20T13:41:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T18:41:22","slug":"hitting-the-silk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/hitting-the-silk\/","title":{"rendered":"Hitting the Silk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; width: 100%; height: 400px;\" src=\"\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23e4e0e0&amp;d=april21&amp;pageNumber=8&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During World War II, when silk for wedding gowns was virtually unobtainable, determined brides recycled their grooms\u2019 silk parachutes. Writing for The Vintage News website in \u201cDresses from the Sky,\u201d Goran Blazeski says \u201cpeople had to do without many things for the sake of victory.\u201d Inventive wartime gowns designed from chutes are so prized they\u2019re on display at the Smithsonian, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Imperial War Museum. What\u2019s next\u2014the Maine Military Museum in South Portland?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Read the full\u00a0letter in the digital magazine above.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/category\/editor\/\">Click here to\u00a0view\u00a0more\u00a0<strong>Letters from the Editor.<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> April 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20156"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22619,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20156\/revisions\/22619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}